All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
International Perspectives on Reminiscence, Life Review and Life Story Work
I may as well make my full disclosure at the outset of this review: I am getting old, I am a depressive, I am worried about getting Alzheimer’s, I love r…
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Ishtar
Ishtar, also known as Inana and Inanna, is a female ancient Mesopotamian god — indeed, one of their most important. She features in many myths and…
Literatures of Madness
This groundbreaking book takes as its premise a series of commitments to bridging myriad gaps, anew. In its formulations, which critique overtly bu…
No Apparent Distress
This memoir by Rachel Pearson details her extraordinary childhood in poverty with a loving family that moulded her personality, her success in education…
Oh My Goth
Gena Showalter is a prolific author of romance, fantasy and young adult novels, who has published more than 25 books in the last 17 years. Her latest pub…
Phenomenology
What is phenomenology? What do phenomenologists do? How can phenomenological studies contribute to other fields than philosophy? These are the guiding qu…
Self-Consciousness and ‘Split’ Brains
The nature of the person is one of the most discussed and most controversial issues in modern philosophy and also recently, in psychology. The phenomenon…
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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
How and why did Philosophy begin in Greece? The traditional answer to this question points at a group of thinkers that become consecrated as the predeces…
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The Existential Drinker
Let us start at the end. In the Conclusion, Earnshaw writes: In these particular works meaninglessness, self, authenticity,…
The Nature of Moral Responsibility
The Nature of Moral Responsibility: New Essays is a collection of exciting essays on moral responsibility, written in the analytic tr…
The Origins of Happiness
How can an individual become satisfied and happy in their life? Many researchers, within the last 80 years, have conducted extensive research on what inf…
The Witch Elm
The Witch Elm won high praise in 2018 from critics, but was received less warmly by fans of Tana French’s previous crime novels. It’s a lon…
Warlight
“Most of the great battles are fought in the creases of topographical maps.” That is the introductory quote for the novel. And, yes,…
Animal Welfare in a Changing World
Animal Welfare in a Changing World contains four kinds of essays. First, there are the ones that offer glimpses into specific…
BOSH!
BOSH! is a vegan cookbook which avoids using the word “vegan” in its title or indeed anywhere on its cover, front or back. It is from the U…
Compassionate Moral Realism
Most advocates of moral realism defend their view primarily by addressing objections and by pointing out the shortcomings of rival metaethical positions.…
Exercise-Based Interventions for Mental Illness
It has been known for some time that exercise was more likely to benefit brain health and neuronal connectivity than sitting on a computer playing brain…
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Human Dignity and Assisted Death
The so-called distinction between active and passive euthanasia was challenged by the philosopher James Rachels in a paper first published in 1975 in the…
Mind the Body
Mind the Body is a book in the philosophy of empirical psychology. That is, Vignemont judges some of the findings, arguments,…
Mrs. Fletcher
Perrotta’s latest novel is a smart and entertaining investigation of modern social issues: sexual harassment, hook up culture, sexually appropriate exper…
Power Yoga
Author Leah Cullis is a power yoga instructor who has worked and trained at the Baptiste Institute with founder Baron Baptiste. She is also a featu…
RX
RX is primarily an account of Rachel Lindsay’s working in corporate marke…
Schadenfreude
We take pleasure in the misfortune of some other people. The fancy German name for this pleasure is Schadenfreude. Tiffany Watt Smith has written a whole…
The Cow with Ear Tag #1389
Tim Pachirat’s Every Twelve Seconds (Yale University Press, 2013) certainly wasn’t the first book to detail what happens in slaughterh…
The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers
The meaning of life is an everlasting question searched by great many people throughout human history. The same question has been in the agenda of philos…
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